The Stainless Steel Rat
Jim DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes and recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships...
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Jim DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes and recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships anymore, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. DiGriz' hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself and the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who is planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds. DiGriz' dilemma is whether he will turn Angelina over to the Special Corps, or join with her, since he has fallen in love with her.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780722144817 (0722144814)
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: Sphere
Pages no: 158
Edition language: English
Series: Stainless Steel Rat -3 (#4)
An interstellar police group recruits criminals to catch criminals.We follow the adventures of Slippery Jim, one of the best con-man thieves in the multiple galaxies. I'm not sure why I always thought these were written by either Peirs Anthony or Isaac Asimov. They're not. LOL The Kindle ver...
A 1961 "Astounding Magazine" fix-up that feels like its been mercilessly asset-stripped over the years. Bags of charm though. The planet-hopping, battleship-tracking Rat at one point decamps to a country retreat with a disbarred Doctor for some surgical alteration, takes a personality altering cockt...
I think the best thing I can say about this book is that it does not age well. In the far future (which, I think would be about now, although I'm willing to forgive the book this bit), people have been selectively bred to be socially conscious and responsible. The few malcontents that are born ar...
I read this book for the first time back in the early 90s, while at university. We had a fantastic book shop where you could give back books you'd read to help fund your new purchases. I introduced myself to a lot of previously unread science-fiction authors thanks to that shop, but I also read thro...
I don't know why but I was expecting something more like vintage space opera from the 30's and was surprised to find this was actually written in the mid '60s and still feels fresh.This is light, fast-moving, edge of your seat stuff that you will whip through in no time. A charming, loveable rogue p...
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